Just installed it after taking ages to download (16kb/s on my 10Megabit cable connection is not great!)

Looks good and much much better than 5.x and have no problems with fonts at well. The preference window fonts all look fine. It looks like Adobe put a fair bit of work into this one, cause from early impressions it works well, is fast and all nothing much is missing (it even has a full help file!).

One thing is that it is MUCH faster than 5.x on my xp2500. I was surprised at how much faster ver 7 is over ver 5.

Just to chime in on the load time issue -- it takes about 3 secs for Acrobat 7 to load a 1.7 MB PDF file on my 700 MHz P3, while doing an "emerge -Duv world" at the same time._________________I'm only hanging out in OTW until I get rid of this stupid l33t ranking.....Crap. That didn't work.

Will there be an updated package for acroread-asianfonts? When I tried reemerging acroread-asianfonts, it installed everything into /opt/Acrobat5. Checking out the ebuild and following the source links, there isn't anything on the Adobe FTP server that looks like it corresponds to an equivalent set of fonts for Acrobat 7.0._________________I'm only hanging out in OTW until I get rid of this stupid l33t ranking.....Crap. That didn't work.

I'm impressed by this. I nearly failed a unit last semester cause xpdf failed to display some symbols. Yes my fault for not paying more attention.
Not a biggy but I wished it used the newer GTK open/save dialog window

Wow this really is an enormous improvement. It's so fast, I'm not sure if I have much of a need to use xpdf any more. Thanks for the heads up everyone!_________________Comp Specs:
Asus A7V(rev1.02)|AMDXP2100+@1.7GHz|Creative SB128PCI|32MB NVIDIA/TNT2AGP|512MBPC-133

There was a release of a public Linux beta of acrobat reader 7, but it's been taken down now. I think I remember them planning to make a proper (ie non beta / pre release) version 7 for Linux as well, but they must be bugfixing it right now.
http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

I have AR 7 -Beta isntalled, it runs, and that's all I can say. The stuff works, but it's damn slow.

I have read that the new KDE 3.4 includes a revamped KPDF which would be able to select text and images, but I don't know if it can be used in the way Acroread does.

Perhaps wine would be a good solution.

AFAIK there already are betas in the P2P networks._________________--
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